Bradshaw's family companion. Containing ... five hundred receipts in cookery ... also curious extracts from a famous treatise on the teeth, their disorder and cure / [by Dr. Hoffham, i.e. Friedrich Hoffmann] Together with the Cellar-Man.
- Bradshaw, Penelope
- Date:
- 1753
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Bradshaw's family companion. Containing ... five hundred receipts in cookery ... also curious extracts from a famous treatise on the teeth, their disorder and cure / [by Dr. Hoffham, i.e. Friedrich Hoffmann] Together with the Cellar-Man. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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